ISBN: 9781441136114 - history of technology (29): technology in china (11 risultati)

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: New. INKSTER, I. ED.: HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, 29 - 2009. NEW YORK, NY, 2009, 192 p. figuras, 510 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (GT-1-2) 510 gr. Libro.

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Offers a fresh way of looking at Chinese history through their technological advances. This collection of essays concers with the technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them.&Uumlber den Autor.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of EuropeOur second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.'.…